Congress’ choice to tie up with AIUDF diluted its anti-CAA agenda and it resulted in its large loss in Assam

BJP registered a spectacular victory within the state of Assam below the management of Sarbananda Sonowal and Himanta Biswa Sarma. Congress, which allied with many events together with Badaruddin Ajmal led AIUDF, may win solely 29 seats within the meeting of 126. Congress’s choice to ally with AIUDF, which brazenly advocates for the infiltration of unlawful immigrants from Bangladesh, proved very expensive to the celebration as its vote share declined by 1.29 per cent. BJP leaders like Himanta Biswa Sarma saved the electoral marketing campaign targeted on Congress’s alliance with a celebration that brazenly advocates for unlawful immigrants and took away nearly all Hindu voters from the celebration. The method for the Congress and its associate AIUDF in Assam was easy – consolidate Muslim votes. Muslims represent roughly 35 per cent of the state’s voters. Although the consolidation of Muslim votes was straightforward for the 2 events, in addition they had one other plan – hinging upon the truth that the consolidation of minority vote would bear outcomes. That plan was to realize the division of Hindu and indigenous votes within the state between itself and the BJP.However, the consolidation of Muslim votes additionally led to reverse polarisation in favour of the BJP, and this resulted within the celebration making a clear sweep in Hindu dominated constituencies. Moreover, the alliance of Congress with AIUDF didn’t go nicely with the tribal group of the state they usually rallied behind the newly shaped United People’s Party Liberal (UPPL) that fought in alliance as a substitute of going with Bodoland People’s Front as a result of the latter selected to ally with a pro-illegal immigrant celebration. The choice of Congress to ally with AIUDF diluted the pinnacle begin that it bought with anti-CAA protests as a result of the voters began seeing it as a celebration that’s not in assist of the rights of indigenous individuals, however a pro-illegal immigrant celebration. Himanta Biswa Sarma brazenly used it towards the UPA alliance and mentioned that if it involves energy, Ajmal will maintain the primary cabinet assembly both in Bangladesh or Pakistan. The Congress, below Tarun Gogoi, didn’t kind an alliance with the AIUDF within the 2006 and 2011 polls, as the previous Chief Minister was himself of the view that such an alliance would find yourself disproportionately hurting the celebration’s prospects in Hindu-dominated constituencies, other than it getting utterly obliterated within the 27 seats which Upper Assam has to supply. Yet, to one way or the other save the fortunes of the Congress, it was Tarun Gogoi who led to the fruition of a pre-poll alliance between the Congress and the AIUDF.The AIUDF was shaped with the only real goal of defending the indefensible – unlawful Bangladeshi Muslims. The AIUDF was based in 2002 within the quick aftermath of the repeal of the controversial IMDT Act by the Supreme Court, which had put the onus of proving that an individual is a foreigner on the police or the complainant. In the absence of the mentioned Act, the onus as soon as once more rested with the infiltrator to show his/her Indian citizenship. The AIUDF staunchly opposed the identical.The Congress allying with such a celebration has not fared nicely for the indigenous Hindu and pagan communities of Assam. The BJP benefitted immensely from this reverse-polarisation and has, the truth is, made the difficulty of Islamism a serious ballot plank within the state.